WilmerHale Partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s Artificial Intelligence Practice and Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice, Kirk Nahra, will participate in a session titled “Managing Legal Ethics in Uncertain Legal Times” on Wednesday, April 23 at IAPP’s 2025 Global Privacy Summit.
You often hear that technology moves faster than the law. The privacy and security field may be the prototype for this idea as the limited history of privacy law runs directly into powerful technological change. This session will explore some of the key legal ethics issues that arise in this context — where the law is changing rapidly, often without meaningful guidance on what the substance of that law is. This session will use the ethics rules and case studies to discuss how to advocate for clients and defend before regulators when the law is not yet developed or is moving rapidly. For example, how should practitioners interpret and apply the model rule 1.1 (competence), rule 2.1 (advisor) and rule 3.1 (meritorious claims and contentions) when the law can feel like a moving target? Case studies will include consideration of state law provisions concerning “cures,” emerging Federal Trade Commission theories, and artificial intelligence developments.
